1 online resource (xvii, 277 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index

Introduction: listening to bodies talk -- Knowing women -- A close look at female orifices in farce and fabliau -- Head or ass? refocusing the penis-eye -- Lips or labia? how headless women speak -- A taste of knowledge: genesis and generation in the jeu d'adam -- Mind over matter: why women should be silent -- Matter before mind: how women come first -- Desiring ladies -- Beauty in the blindspot: Philomena's talking hands -- Rewriting men's stories: Enide's disruptive mouths -- Why beauty laughs: Iseut's enormous thighs -- Conclusion: bodies at stake

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